The Baker's Boy: Bakers Boy

Paperback | June 1, 1995

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The first novel in a brilliantly crafted trilogy. As the King of the Four Kingdoms lays dying, traitorous conspirators prepare a political marriage to ensure their control of the crown. But the young Melliandra refuses to betroth a sinister Prince and flees the castle in the company of a miracle-working kitchen apprentice.

About The Author

J.V. Jones was born in Liverpool, England, in 1963. The daughter of a pub owner, she tended bar from the age of eleven onward. At twenty, she began working for a record label and was part of the Liverpool music scene of the early eighties. She later moved to San Diego, California, where she ran an export business for several years and ...

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Rated 4 out of
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Sebastien_Lang from
Promissing TitleYou get the feeling by reading this book that Jones has lots of cards up her sleeve. This book gives us just a little information, leaving the reader hungry for more. The book has it's good moments (Baralis and Maybor, both villains and always trying to kill each other...) and some bad (Magic is present in this book, but the author doesn't seem keen on writing about it). So essentially it's that kind of book that you have to read the hole series to enjoy. (Not unlike &quot;The Eye of the World&quot; by Robert Jordan, which you don't have to read the whole &quot;Wheel of Time&quot; series to enjoy). Hoping the second book will answer a lot of question this book left unanswered.

Date published: 2001-03-29

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While the king of Castle Harvell lies dying, young Melliandra rebels against her forced betrothal to the sinister Prince Kylock and finds an ally in Jack, an apprentice who discovers his unsettling power to work miracles. Original.